As a Greens voter I don’t think theres much more the Greens can do ? Albeit I’m open to suggestions.
As a long time Greens voter, their policy platfrom doesn’t sit with most voters (science and expert based mixed with kindness and inclusivety)
The issue is, if they morph to recgonise that’s not what people want, they will need to look into the abyss and become the abyss and turn into something truly ugly like Labour have done. Albanese literately says that in the AFR today.
English DNA and the green party do not mix. You will never explain that car culture, shit education and healthcare are a problem to these people. What you need to do is directly access their feels and leverage their innate sense of entitlement with a populist message and a cultish leader. Or wait for the ecosystem to collapse, that’s a good option.
Some fun graphics demonstrating it, but this isn’t nearly as interesting in terms of actual substance as I was hoping. Just the exact same three points people have been saying since the week after the election. And I agree that these three are the most relevant factors. But they’re not especially actionable or insightful.
Another point I heard some voters actually discussing was that they wanted the Greens, but they thought it was more important to keep Dutton out. In other words, problems with voters misunderstanding how our electoral system works.
And of course many people have tried suggesting it’s the Greens’ fault for being too oppositional. Purely as a matter of fact this is obviously incorrect, but it could have been interesting to know if there’s data to back up whether a perception of that might have been a factor. Or something else.
That misunderstanding of voting system could be true. But there is an even broader picture that Labor has been targeting this time. I got Labor papers telling me not to vote for greens because if greens won this seat then that’s one less seat for Labor giving the liberals an edge.
In reality this kind of thinking obviously doesn’t hold up.